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Aaron Copland (pronounced Copeland), 39, is the youngest son of a Brooklyn storekeeper who thought his name was Kaplan, until an immigration official wrote it to suit his own ears. Copland is tall, energetic, large-nosed, engagingly toothy. He began studying music at 13. In the early 19205, as a...
Leverett nosed out Eliot for second place 46 1/2 to 46, while Winthrop came in fourth with 35 1/2. Kirkland, Dunster, and Adams finished in fifth, sixth, sixth and seventh with 19, 16 1/2 and 2 points.
St. George's Episcopal Church, in down-at-heels Stuyvesant Square, Manhattan, has its traditions. One is beet-nosed J. P. Morgan the elder, who for 28 years, as senior warden, loomed up & down its aisles with the collection plate, left it a $500,000 endowment in his will...
P. E. N. President Jules Romains is the short, highbrowed, big-nosed author of Men of Good Will, whose desire to report the whole life of his time in one novel has carried his book to its 15th volume. Listening as Author Romains reported P. E. N.'s change...
In two House tennis matches yesterday, Eliot nosed out Adams 4 to 3, and Winthrop trimmed Lowell 6 to 1 to win the inter-House crown.